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12/06/2017

Tonight

Party Legends Premiere Screening - Splash - - Monday, June 12, 2017

19/04/2017

Trailer for this year's show at Bridgetown Comedy Festival on Friday May 5th Revolution Hall. Team Dresch back in action, plus Janeane Garofalo, Kyle Kinane, Baron Vaughn, Karen Kilgariff, Ron Lynch, April Richardson, Brodie Reed, Jesse Elias. This is a ticketed event so don't miss out.

https://youtu.be/WQBXiVHHi8Q

Lance Bangs presents Come Laugh With Us at Revolution Hall during the Bridgetown Comedy Festival 2017. This is a special ticketed event featuring the only fe...

17/10/2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfISPsaW8M4

Trailer for live standup comedy show presented by New York Comedy Festival Sunday Nov 6 2016. Flophouse (as seen on Viceland) hosted by Lance Bangs http://ww...

29/07/2016

Ever wonder what would happen if Margaret Cho was in a room with Anna Nicole Smith? If not, maybe you should...

Margaret Cho tells a story from a night at Anna Nicole Smith's house. Subscribe Now: http://bit.ly/SUBSCRIBE-TO-VICELAND Follow VICELAND: VICELAND.com | http...

15/07/2016

No cable? You can watch the complete 1st episode of Party Legends on Viceland's youtube channel until August 14th.

PRO TIP: Episode 1 (uncensored) will be available for FREE download from iTunes until July 19th!

Alia Shawkat, Jon Daly, Kid Ink and Chris Pontius have their wildest party stories animated. Find your VICELAND channel here: https://www.viceland.com/en_us/...

10/07/2016

Party Legends is now airing on Viceland! Stay tuned for episode 2 on 7/14 at 7:30pm PST.

Alia Shawkat, Jon Daly, Kid Ink and Chris Pontius have their wildest party stories animated.

02/07/2016

Featuring original Jeff Mangum art, a smashed Guy Piccotto guitar, signed records

24/06/2016

Less than 2 weeks until Party Legends hits the air on Viceland:

Multinational TV Channel VICELAND has released a trailer for its new animated series ‘Party Legends’ ahead of its premiere on Thursday, July 7 at 10:30 p.m.. The six episode series takes absurd, candid and hilarious tales of real-life party experiences related by notable personalities and brings the...

16/06/2016

"And I just remember everybody was making out with everybody."

16/06/2016

We are thrilled about the launch of Party Legends which will premiere on VICELAND on July 7th at 10:30pm. Check out the trailer over at Vulture.com.

"And I just remember everybody was making out with everybody."

02/06/2016

Tonight! Lance Bangs presents Come Laugh With Us at Bridgetown Comedy Festival!
For this special event at Revolution Hall on Thursday, June 2nd, Lance welcomes guests Jonah Ray (The Meltdown, Hidden America), Moshe Kasher (, Another Period), Kyle Mooney (SNL), Steve Agee (New Girl, The Sarah Silverman Program), David Gborie, Joe Pera, Natalie Palamides, and Clare O'Kane, with live music from The Thermals.

Lance Bangs presents Come Laugh With Us at Revolution Hall during the Bridgetown Comedy Festival 2016. This is a special ticketed event featuring the only fe...

23/06/2015

Kick your Summah off right with a new video from Howard Kremer and Lance Bangs!

Howard Kremer's summah classic "Gu Cruise" as directed by Lance Bangs. Features orangutans giving rides on jet skis.

31/05/2015

Tonight at the The Hollywood Theatre!!

Lance Bangs presents at Everything Is Festival at Hollywood Theater in Portland, Oregon on Sunday, May 31st 2015 @ 9:30 pm.

28/05/2015

Get advance tickets to Lance's event at The Hollywood Theatre this Sunday for Everything Is Festival! He will talk about creative approaches, his current work creative developing an upcoming channel for VICE and show rare or unreleased footage from past projects.

His keynote will conclude with the West Coast debut of Philadelphia punks, BAD CANOES, fronted by Marissa Paternoster (Screaming Females).

http://hollywoodtheatre.org/lance-bangs-presents/

You probably know who Lance Bangs is, even if you don’t really know who Lance Bangs is. This music video director, behind-the-scenes filmmaker, documentarian, is oh so much more. He has his fingers in so many pies it’s hard to track, and looking at his body of work there’s almost no way one human…

07/05/2015

Lance will once again be presenting Come Laugh With Us at Bridgetown Comedy Fest! This year's guests include Steve Agee, Kate Berlant, Curtis Cook, Rana May, Adam Cayton-Holland, Neil Hamburger and Clare O'Kane. Plus, as always, Lance will share some rare comedy footage from his archives! This Saturday, May 9 at Doug Fir Lounge at 9pm.

UPDATE: You can now see the whole updated lineup and schedule here. As the Bridgetown Comedy Fest lineup grows and grows, we have more and...

24/03/2015

In case you didn't catch it: Part 2 of the Screaming Females tour doc!

In the second part of this Lance Bangs-directed on the road doc, New Brunswick trio Screaming Females open up about their inter-band dynamics.

05/03/2015

Check out part 1 of the Screaming Females tour documentary

Singer Marissa Paternoster admits sleep is her ultimate drug (we hear you), but their live shows are anything but a snooze.

24/02/2015

Premiere of new Screaming Females video for "Hopeless"
Lance's description: "We did this bonkers approach of editing everything, then getting it turned into an actual 35mm negative, then we had movie prints made, then Marissa spent days obsessively scratching, bleaching, and hand animating the 5400 individual frames. After that we rescanned it all, and synched it up to the audio."

Blood-splattered guitars and abandoned playgrounds, the New Jersey trio return with this Lance Bangs-directed video.

04/02/2015

At any given moment, there are a few comedians who rise to the level of household names, and a great number of younger up-and-comers striving for more exposure. But, there are also a number of producers, directors, editors, executives, and teachers who profoundly affect the forms and styles of moder…

08/12/2014

Check out the newest Kim Deal video. Directed by Lance Bangs and edited by Field Recordings!

Featuring Kim's sister/ Breeders bandmate Kelley and Britt Walford of Slint

15/10/2014

If you haven't already had a chance to catch it, Breadcrumb Trail will be screened tonight at 7pm at NWFC as part of the 32nd Reel Music Festival. Lance will be in attendance too!

Even those who haven’t heard Slint have heard Slint. Not only did the band’s members go on to perform with acts as diverse as The Breeders, Tortoise, Inter- pol, Stereolab and Yeah Yeah Yeahs, but the cutting, complicated dynamics of their second and final album, 1991’s Spiderland, essentially birth…

03/09/2014

Final episode: MADE IN LA: FT. WARREN G, SOCIAL DISTORTION, WARPAINT, NO AGE, TRASH TALK, ALICE BAG AND MORE!

Ten cities three months and we end up in LA talking to Egyptian Lover, David Yow, NASA, Soko, Alice Bag, and many, many more.

27/08/2014

Made In Philadelphia---ft-Santigold-Schooly-D-Spank-Rock-and-Amanda-Blank

From its jazz roots to Diplo's legendary mid-2000s Hollertronix parties, we explore Philly with some of the scene's leading luminaries.

26/08/2014

Episode 8 is up! Made In Baltimore featuring ANIMAL COLLECTIVE, DAN DEACON, RYE RYE and TT THE ARTIST!

How the city's hip-hop scene intersect with its experimental electronic contingent and Bmore club. Plus Rye Rye tries teaches us how to do "The Spongebob." S**t gets a little weird in Bmore.

12/08/2014

Made In Detroit = Episode 7! Featuring Danny Brown and legends Carl Craig, Kevin Saunderson and more...

Detroit is a city that continues to live in the shadows of decayed industry, but in spite of this its music scene thrives, morphs, and prospers.

11/08/2014

EPISODE 6 - MADE IN MEMPHIS - FEATURING PROJECT PAT, BIG STAR'S JODY STEPHENS, AND EX-CULT

Project Pat: "One thing about Memphis, we got soul, we get them booties moving…"

08/08/2014

Made In Athens! Episode 5 features Peter Buck of R.E.M., Pylon, Drive-By Truckers, Reptar, Dream Boat and more...

This sleepy college town is one of the country's most fertile breeding grounds for awesome music for the past 30 years.

25/07/2014

Lance was picked as one of Willamette Week's "Best People" of 2014! We agree!

BEST GEOCACHER Some geocachers are in it for the rankings, their user profiles boasting detailed personal benchmarks for the worldwide GPS-based scavenger-hunt game. But Portland’s best,Featured Stories

22/07/2014

Episode 4 is up! Made in St. Louis - Featuring Nelly, Tef Poe, Nick Menn and JGE Retro!

Nelly, people, Nelly.

14/07/2014

Episode 3: Made in Minnesota - Featuring The Replacements, Hüsker Dü, The Hold Steady, Lizzo, and Babes In Toyland!

Minneapolis (and St. Paul) is so much more than Prince and purifying yourself in the waters of Lake Minnetonka.

10/07/2014

Episode 2: Made In Denver!

In this second episode Noisey heads to Denver to see if there's more to the city than pot and jam bands.

03/07/2014

A new series of shorts focusing on the music scenes in cities around the country. First stop: Seattle!

The 2014 Budweiser Made In Seattle documentary, featuring Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie/The Postal Service, La Luz and Tacocat.

26/06/2014

New interview with Lance about making Breadcrumb Trail and a little history too...

Catching up with the prolific director to hear how he pieced together his latest project, the Slint documentary ‘Breadcrumb Trail’.

19/03/2014

Willamette Week interview with Lance about his new film Breadcrumb Trail. Porltand, catch the film (and Lance) at the Hollywood Theatre, March 23rd!

Tickets: http://bit.ly/1nCKs02

In 1991, at an underground music club in Asheville, N.C., Lance Bangs heard an album so weird and wondrous it would obsess him for the next two decades. That record, Spiderland, was by Slint, a,Music Stories

18/03/2014

From the Oregonian::
"Breadcrumb Trail” is an exciting examination of the more ephemeral aspects of artistic creation.

Lance Bangs presents his latest documentary, "Breadcrumb Trail," the secret history of the elusive indie rock band Slint.